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certified certificate of registration or competency from the state pharmaceu- 

 tical examining board, as herein provided; and any person violating the pro- 

 visions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 

 viction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 

 Laws 1887, p. 192. 



Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, vol. 1, p. ] 08-110. 

 SALE OF POISONS. 



330. Regulations and restrictions. No apothecary, druggist or other person, 

 shall sell or dispose of, by retail, any morphia, strychnia, arsenic, prussic acid 

 or corrosive sublimate, except upon the prescription of a physician, or on the 

 personal application of some respectable inhabitant of full age, of the town or 

 place in which such sale shall be made ; and in all cases of such sale, the word 

 " poison " shall be carefully and legibly marked or placed upon the label, pack- 

 age, bottle or other vessel or thing in which such poison is contained; and 

 when sold or disposed of, otherwise than under the prescription of a physician, 

 the apothecary, druggist or other person selling or disposing of the same, 

 shall note in a register, kept for that purpose, the name and residence of the 

 person to whom such sale was made, the quantity sold, and the date of such 

 sale ; any person offending herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 

 viction, be sentenced to pay a fine, not exceeding fifty dollars. (Laws 1860, 

 P. 401.) 



Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, vol. 1, p. 529. 



19. A " poison " defined. A poison in the meaning of this act shall be any 

 drug, chemical or preparation, which, according to standard works on medicine 

 or materia medica, is liable to be destructive to adult human life, in quantities 

 of sixty grains or less. 



20. Containers of ^o/.voy/.s sliall l>c suitably labeled. No person shall sell at 

 retail any poisons, except as herein provided, without affixing to the bottle, 

 box, vessel or package containing the same, a label, printed or plainly written, 

 containing the name of the article, the word " poison," and the name and place 

 of business of the seller, nor shall he deliver poison to any person without satis- 

 fying himself that such poison is to be used for legitimate purposes. 



21. Record of sales of certain poisons to be kept. It shall be the further 

 duty of any one selling or dispensing poisons, which are known to be destructive 

 to adult human life in quantities of five grains or less, before delivering them, 

 to enter in a book kept for this purpose the name of the seller, the name and 

 residence of the buyer, the name of the article, quantity sold or disposed of, 

 and the purpose for which it is said to be intended, which book of registry 

 shall be preserved for at least two years, and shall at all times be open to 

 the inspection of the coroner or courts of the county in which the same may 

 be kept. 



22. Physicians' prescriptions and insecticides exccptcd ; penalty. The pro- 

 visions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of physicians' prescrip- 

 tions, specifying poisonous articles, nor to the sale to agriculturalists of such 

 articles as are commonly used by them as insecticides. Any person failing to 

 comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less 

 than five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. 



23. Provisions for enforcement. It shall be the duty of the state pharma- 

 ceutical examining board to investigate all complaints and charges of non- 



